Monday, 25 April 2016

W16 Lab Series: Part 3 - What Next (Some Ideas)?

I’m anticipating
being quite busy for the next few weeks at least, so may not get time to do any
more posts on this series for a while (my last 5 posts - including this one - I
actually finished off/wrote on … ahem … vacation).

In part 1 we setup our AD users and groups, in part 2 we
setup DNS, now for “What would come next?”

Cluster build is to
a great extent down to preference and requirements, so not all of the below is
for everyone The below considers real-world systems, and no point re-inventing
the wheel, so the below adapts some work from a real-world cluster build doc I
compiled.

Section 1: Pre
WFA Cluster Build (Stuff that won’t be WFA-erized)

1.1) Basic Cluster
Setup

We leave this to the Installation Engineer to complete
via simple Cluster Setup Wizard. We just need:

- Cluster Name

- Cluster Management IP

- Node Management IP(s)

- (temporary) admin password

- Service-Processors configured

1.2) Making sure
the root aggr is on the right disk/stack

Again, since this may require physical intervention, we
leave this to the Installation Engineer to complete.

Section 2: WFA
Cluster Build

A lot of the below
could be prefixed with “verify/modify/configure/create”